Two young men helped another man import thousands of dollars of illegal drugs by opening post boxes in false names, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.

Dunedin City councillor Lee Vandervis' aggression towards colleagues was slammed as unacceptable at a code of conduct hearing yesterday.

Massey University student Virginia Ford was allegedly murdered on Friday night by a 21-year-old man with whom she lived in Palmerston North.

A scene examination has been completed at the Dunedin house where a 24-year-old was found dead yesterday, police say.

The Dunedin Notorious Mongrel Mob is distancing itself from a plan to allow gang members to compete for the city's green space contracts.

A shopping company is being investigated over revelations some of its door-to-door staff regularly visit beneficiaries in a Dunedin boarding house.

The Notorious Mongrel Mob and Black Power could be coming to a lawn near you.

Dunedin police are refusing to disclose any detail about why a 51-year-old man was shot in Purakaunui last Friday.

Police have begun a "comprehensive" investigation into Friday's shooting in Purakaunui as a 34-year-old woman appeared in court in connection with the incident.

The Dunedin City Council's group debt has dropped by more than $25 million on the back of stronger results by its companies, new figures show.

The company running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is promising a "completely different ball game" despite confirming another $1 million loss.

Two members of a defunct Dunedin bowling club have been made bankrupt after failing to return monies wrongfully taken by them.

An out-of-control party of up to 200 youths ended in fights and disorder in a Dunedin park on Saturday night.

A notorious party flat in central Dunedin could find itself dragged into an extension of the city's liquor ban after years of 'unacceptable' behaviour by its residents.

A man who raped a 16-year-old girl in the Dunedin Library car park after befriending her on Facebook has been sentenced to nine years and two months' jail.

''Everyone just ran and glass showered down on to the road.'' Exploding glass caused a shower of fragments onto Dunedin's main street yesterday.

Six overseas drivers have appeared in court over the past 24 hours after a series of crashes that have focused attention on tourist driving.

For the past 15 years, Glen Tily has got on bended knee and proposed marriage to the love of his life, Cathryn Herd.

An annual party at a sponsored student flat has been cancelled after more than 3000 people indicated they would attend.

A stony demeanour has not been enough for Queen Victoria to ward off the latest ill-treatment by Dunedin vandals.

A group of Dunedin flatmates say they picked up 550kg of glass after a party they hosted on their street which attracted 1000 people.

''I try to pick up the broken glass every Sunday morning, but it was just too bad.'' 1000 revellers helped plaster a Dunedin street in glass - to residents' disgust.

A pregnant woman was taken to Dunedin Hospital after a street race involving up to three cars ended in a collision yesterday.

A swastika was painted on a headstone and two other headstones were knocked over in a 'fairly nasty incident' in the Jewish section of a Dunedin cemetery.

Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis now faces two formal complaints despite apologising for an allegedly expletive-laden outburst aimed at senior Dunedin City Council staff.

Two Korean nationals are dead after a horror smash at Blackhead, Dunedin, yesterday.

One person has died and another is in a critical condition following a crash in Dunedin this evening.

Some new software released in Dunedin yesterday will be a breath of fresh air for breast-feeding mums.